Colmar Brunton has appointed a media & digital director along with a new director of creative & brand strategy “to drive customer-centred growth solutions for clients”.
Instagram grows to 400m
Facebook’s Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong worldwide, according to a release supplied to M+AD from an unnamed Instagram/Facebook spokesperson.
Texas on the horizon

APN Outdoor reports a strong response to its Pixel3610 initiative, setting up a strong finals event tomorrow evening (Thursday 24 September) at Seafarers from 6-10pm.
Glucina? No way!
The fur has been flying around the M+AD and NBR coverage of NZME’s 24/7 integrated newsroom. But one thing has become clear – NBR reporter Nick Grant did not take his information from Rachel Glucina’s Scout gossip site.
Direct awards entry call
The NZ Marketing Association has issued its entry call for the 2015 NZDM Awards (including Nexus and RSVP).
Actors portal debuts (updated)

An editing glitch in yesterday’s M+AD mailout story about a new web portal for NZ actors had the incorrect information but took readers to the right page.
The version on the M+AD web page was, however, correct. Here’s that story again …
Westpac & Hypermedia reward ATM customers
Westpac customers will be able to take up offers from local businesses as the bank rolls out New Zealand’s first ATM coupon rewards platform – Rewarded.
Readers challenge M+AD/NBR ‘cull gossip’
Some readers are questioning the quality of the information contained in the recent M+AD and NBR reports on an alleged cull of top NZME writers as the company moves towards its new 24/7 integrated newsroom model.
Advice to a younger me
If we could give some advice to a younger version of ourselves, what would we say? First on the list (and if it’s not it should be) for many would be to look after their health.
NZME books Vector Arena for Deloitte debut

NZME Events in partnership with Deloitte has announced details of the upcoming Deloitte Top 200, the big annual show NZME picked up when Mediaweb went under last year. This year’s show will now be held on Thursday 26 November at Vector Arena.